Goonhub
11-18-2013, 08:29 PM
I just had my crowning achievement round as an engineer. I set up the engine flawlessly. Nothing was left to chance. I spaced the right tiles, and minded the vent valve, and watched the engine. The fire in the combustion room was radiating a beautiful blue light, which turned the fire itself green. The AI marveled that he'd never seen anything like it, and the CE danced with joy. The engine climbed to 4.1MW, and all was right with the station, except for whatever else was going on. Something about changelings in sec, whatever.
Anyway, I ran around and did some errands and busy work, always checking back on the engine. Venting when needed, checking temperatures, you know how it goes. I kept the pipes leading into the engine core at around 2-2.5k KPA, and noted the temperature as it soared and soared.
At some point, the heat bleed through got bad enough that I couldn't operate the vent valve or check the pipes without roasting myself. I ran over to genetics and grabbed heat resistance. I made my way back and noticed that the engine wasn't working. Like, the turbines were spinning wildly, but the core wasn't lit. I asked cogwerks about it, and he had no idea what the fuck. Then the engine sprang back to life, and I though everything was fine. NOPE! It went critical and exploded a moment later, taking out most of the core room with it. Faffotron came by to check it out, and marveled at the fire in the combustion chamber. By now the shuttle had been called, so I wandered over there while Cogwerks gave periodic updates on the combustion chamber.
By the end of the round, the chamber had reached 5 TRILLION degrees, and was climbing pretty quickly. For refference, most stars get up to around 15 million degrees. This was the chamber at the end of the round:
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Now, it may not look like there's fire, but there's fire. It just happens to be the same blue as the heat it's radiating. It's that god damn hot. My only regret is that I will likely never be able to top it.
Anyway, I ran around and did some errands and busy work, always checking back on the engine. Venting when needed, checking temperatures, you know how it goes. I kept the pipes leading into the engine core at around 2-2.5k KPA, and noted the temperature as it soared and soared.
At some point, the heat bleed through got bad enough that I couldn't operate the vent valve or check the pipes without roasting myself. I ran over to genetics and grabbed heat resistance. I made my way back and noticed that the engine wasn't working. Like, the turbines were spinning wildly, but the core wasn't lit. I asked cogwerks about it, and he had no idea what the fuck. Then the engine sprang back to life, and I though everything was fine. NOPE! It went critical and exploded a moment later, taking out most of the core room with it. Faffotron came by to check it out, and marveled at the fire in the combustion chamber. By now the shuttle had been called, so I wandered over there while Cogwerks gave periodic updates on the combustion chamber.
By the end of the round, the chamber had reached 5 TRILLION degrees, and was climbing pretty quickly. For refference, most stars get up to around 15 million degrees. This was the chamber at the end of the round:
Now, it may not look like there's fire, but there's fire. It just happens to be the same blue as the heat it's radiating. It's that god damn hot. My only regret is that I will likely never be able to top it.